{"paper_id":"09f4cd87-296f-484f-9609-ac5ca262f2bd","body_text":"Case Reports—Pulmonary\nEndometrioma Presenting as a Cavitary Lung Mass With Intense 18 F-FDG Uptake on PET-CT\n- Anna Y. Derman\n- Dan Sperling\n- Avraham Merav\n- Vineet R. Jain\n- Miles Levin\n- Suman Jana\n- Linda B. Haramati\n[18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography computed tomography is a useful tool to suggest the diagnosis of malignant processes. However, false positive results are known to occur in benign lesions that have a high metabolic activity. Here we describe the unusual diagnosis of a pulmonary endometrioma in a 47-year-old woman, presenting as a cavitary lung mass with intense 18F-FDG uptake on PET-CT.\nCopyright © 2007 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.","source_license":"public-domain-us","license_restricted":false}